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Originally Posted by Regorium
It's like how there has been multiple calculations that you should NEVER punt in football, yet somehow people pay at least one person to specifically execute a sub-optimal decision multiple times a game.
Math is weird when it comes to sports. I have no doubt that pulling the goalie early is a correct choice and teams usually wait too long to pull the goalie, but players aren't robots. Having a 5-0 game go to 10-0 because you're trying to play 6 on 5 has implications on the team dynamic past that single game.
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Here's a 538 story on the high school team that never punts:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/...o-never-punts/
Its a good watch and explains the numbers pretty well. I could see the same sort of thing with pulling the goalie type argument. Sometimes the "old way" is simply the wrong way, but no one has the balls to be the one person doing things differently.